Inspirational Sayings:



Professional Readings for Coaches:

Books:

  • "Mentoring Matters: A Practical Guide to Learning-Focused Relationships" by Laura Lipton & Bruce Wellman(A guide for coaching teachers that includes conversational/verbal tools)
  • "Pathways to Understanding: Patterns and Practices in the Learning-Focused Classroom" by Laura Lipton & Bruce Wellman(Various interaction strategies to use with adults and students)
  • "Data-Driven Dialogue: A Facilitator's Guide to Collaborative Inquiry" by Bruce Wellman & Laura Lipton(A guide for how to facilitate conversations regarding data analysis along with ideas on how to structure those meetings and reproducible resources)
  • "Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service" by Ken Blanchard(How to build relationships and create raving fans in your organization)
  • "What Great Principals Do Differently: Fifteen Things that Matter Most" by Todd Witaker(15 Things that Great Principal's Do)
  • "The Reading Coach: A How-To Manual for Success" by Jan Hasbrouck(Tools, Tips, and Strategies for Reading Coaches)
  • "Using Data to Assess Your Reading Program" by Emily Calhoun(Ideas, Tables, and Charts for using student assessment results to evaluate your reading programs)
  • "Facilitation at a Glance" (2nd edition) by Ingrid Bens(Little pocket guide with facilitation tips & strategies)
  • "Cooperative Learning" by Dr. Spencer Kagan(cooperative learning strategies)
  • "Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Language Arts" by Kagan(Questions to ask and cooperative learning strategies to use during Language Arts)
  • "50 Creative Training Openers & Energizers" by Bob Pike & Lynn Solem(Ice breakers and interaction strategies)
  • "Would You Rather..." by Justin Heimberg & David Gomberg(Questions for adults)
  • "Which Would you Rather Be?" by William Steig(picture book for children)
  • "Would You Rather" by John Burningham(picture book for children)
  • "Teaching Reading Sourcebook" by Bill Honig, Linda Diamond, Linda Gutlohn
Core Literacy Library
  • Tim Rasinski and Michael Opitz's book Good-bye Round Robin Reading
  • To buy or sell used books: Follett Ed Service, phone 800-621-4272 ext. 7505


Additional Materials:


Reading Mastery Videos

"Why is Reading So Hard?" <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/5293317"
"Reading Mastery Video Training Series - RM II, Lessons 40-160" (example of student teacher game points in first 1.5 min. of video) <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/5205232"
"Countdown to Lesson 1" (samples of routines used in first 8.5 min. of video) <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/5293789"
"Countdown to Lesson 1" (Error Correction Information starting 8:20 min. into the video until the end) <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/5293789"

Cybraryman's Website Information:

http://cybraryman.com/coachinginstr.html

Vocabulary Website:


Vocabulogic

Report Cards